If the garden was a house for sale at the moment, it would be described as 'having great potential' due to the fact that it needs so much work. Some warm weather and a good dash of rain have proved the perfect recipe for a weed invasion, and they're taking over the paths and the beds. Me and the chickens are both doing our best to keep on top of them, but they just keep coming....
The potatoes are finally growing well though (they have a mulch of newspaper and grass cuttings to keep down the weeds), and will have to be 'earthed up' soon. I'm growing a mixture of Ambo, Charlotte, Cara, Maris Peer, Nicola and Pink Fir Apple this year all over the allotment, so hopefully that will see us through the whole season.
I've potted on the chilli plants, while Peter washed out loads of pots which he used to pot on the courgettes, squashes and pumpkins. We've also risked putting the broccoli plants out, although I think I will have to put down some of the organic 'slug pellets' I've just found if I want to have any plants left by tomorrow morning. They do seem to be hanging out in the 'slug pubs' (containing the watered down dregs of David's home brew) at the end of the beds though, so that helps a little.
Alan kindly donated some plug plants for the Greenfingers Club to put in their hanging baskets, which we planted up yesterday afternoon, and they will add a nice bit of colour to the fence behind the seating area.
The club's members (only six this week but we seemed to get more done than we usually do with twice as many!) also dug up the tulip and daffodil bulbs and replaced them with giant sunflowers, which we'll be measuring every month.
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